Peter Arnett (right) with Stars & Stripes' Wally Beene in South Vietnam. (Stars & Stripes)
The Pulitzers are pleased to announce that Prize-winning reporting published by the Associated Press from 1953 to 1982 is now available on Pulitzer.org.
Visual entries will be photographed from the original scrapbooks as part of a forthcoming initiative. Additionally, longer entries submitted prior to the stipulation of length requirements have been condensed in a curated format.
More recent winning work from AP, such as the 2016 Public Service Prize-winning "Seafood from Slaves" project, is accessible as well. Pulitzer.org is working to complete its archive by adding historical materials. Stay tuned for further additions, including Eddy Gilmore's 1947 Telegraphic Reporting Prize-winning entry on the Soviet Union and Francis Jamieson's 1933 Reporting Prize-winning coverage of the Lindbergh kidnapping.
Links to each completed entry are provided below:
Don Whitehead (National Reporting, 1953): "It was 5:30 a.m. (EST) on Saturday, November 29, when two men stepped quickly through the doorway of the residence at No. 60 Morningside Heights in New York City, into the cold star-lit night."
Relman Morin (National Reporting, 1958): "It was exactly like an explosion, a human explosion."
Lynn Heinzerling (International Reporting, 1961): "Shops, factories and stores closed as owners and operators fled from the danger which threatened. In some cases the fears were justified; in others the only explanation was panic. The number of debts left behind is incalculable, and bankruptcy will be the result for many."
Malcolm W. Browne (International Reporting, 1964): "Accidental loss of life is tragically high. Many American officials feel bombing and shelling in the countryside may do more harm than good. A family that lost a mother or a child in a raid is likely to look sympathetically on the Viet Cong, which condemns such things as the work of the 'U.S.-Diem imperialist warmongers.'"
Peter Arnett (International Reporting, 1966): "Bong Son itself is being eaten away. An infantry battalion and the Marines are holding only the town and the airfield. U.S. advisers say 1,000 popular forces men at Bong Son have defected to the Viet Cong in recent months. 300 others were killed or captured and only 250 remain."
Walter Mears (National Reporting, 1977): "For Carter, there is a long path to be traveled. But it is a measure of how incredibly far he has come that the candidate, once ranked among the least likely to succeed, now is counseling the Democrats against overconfidence."
Saul Pett (Feature Writing, 1982): "None violates Polonius' advice to Laertes more severely than Uncle Sam. He is both a borrower and a lender. He borrows in cosmic amounts and lends on a celestial scale. He lends at less interest than he borrows. And every year, billions slip through his fingers and disappear into the sinkholes of waste, mismanagement and fraud."